So-ACS/SFOR could receive-payment by-Feb1st Tak
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Take a brief walk with me as I speculate this with you...
So with merchants services needing to be PCI compliant by Feb 1st. could SFOR receive the HUGE PPS changing payment or payments we are hoping for by Feb 1st or before? Since their channel partner ACS per its COO (see below) is involved evidently in providing the security measure to many key huge businesses who are key players in PCI?
No inside info here. Just trying to connect the dots. From CJ Burnetts email to jtech (below) This has been posted by Zpaul check his archives.
Here we go:
Since Bank Of America and Ropes&Gray client TPG who owns First Data Corp, came together to form BOA Merchant services in 2009 and per ACS's COO Graig "CJ" Burnettts email to jtech whose name is Jaime.
Per Burnett : First Data Corp and BOA Merchant services and Blackrock investments and AON are currently ACS's Clients , (see below)
And to be PCI compliant themselves, they have to have the compliant security measures in place for merchant services by Feb 1st.
Do I understand that correctly? (comments)
Wouldn't that mean then ,that they have to have the security measures installed by ACS prior to Feb 1st and in turn pay ACS when completed and in turn SFOR would be paid by Feb 1st or prior to that date when installed.
Help me connect the dots here (comments)
Wouldn't it stand to reason that they would have themselves installed the security measures for their business perhaps many many months ahead to make sure they worked out all the glitches?
Here is CJ Burnetts letter to JTech:
Jtech Member Level Monday, 05/15/17 08:26:59 AM
Re: Gold49er post# 163046
Post #
163191
of 194238 Go
Email confirming some LARGE deals made through ACS.
Quote:
"it takes about 3 months for them to get to us, we are getting them done
As of 3/22, some of the large deals ACS could talk about were
AON
Bank of america Merchant Services
First DATA corp
Blackrock Investments
First Data Corp owned by TPG
Bank Of America and First Data Corp came together to form BOA Merchant services in 2009.
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01 Jun 2017
Author: First Data
Category: Corporate
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